Natural selection and repeated patterns of molecular evolution following allopatric divergence
- North Carolina State University, United States
- University of Florida, United States
- Beijing Genomics Institute, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Zhejiang University, China
Abstract
Although geographic isolation is a leading driver of speciation, the tempo and pattern of divergence at the genomic level remain unclear. We examine genome-wide divergence of putatively single-copy orthologous genes (POGs) in 20 allopatric species/variety pairs from diverse angiosperm clades, with 16 pairs reflecting the classic eastern Asia-eastern North America floristic disjunction. In each pair, >90% of POGs are under purifying selection, and <10% are under positive selection. A set of POGs are under strong positive selection, 14 of which are shared by 10-15 pairs, and one shared by all pairs; 15 POGs are annotated to biological processes responding to various stimuli. The relative abundance of POGs under different selective forces exhibits a repeated pattern among pairs despite an ~10-million-year difference in divergence time. Species divergence times are positively correlated with abundance of POGs under moderate purifying selection, but negatively correlated with abundance of POGs under strong purifying selection.
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Sequences of ortologous gene families and pairs of POGs sequences used for calculation of Ka and Ks have been submitted to Dryad (https://datadryad.org//). Raw transcriptome data have been submitted to NCBI SRA database with Bioproject number PRJNA508825 and Biosample number from SAMN10534244 to SAMN10534283 (Supplementary File 11).
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Natural selection and repeated patterns of molecular evolution following allopatric divergenceBioproject number PRJNA508825 and Biosample number from SAMN10534244 to SAMN10534283.
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Data from: Natural selection and repeated genome-wide patterns of molecular evolution following allopatric divergenceDryad Digital Repository, 10.5061/dryad.f1f0q44.
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National Science Foundation (DEB-442161)
- Yibo Dong
- Wenbin Zhou
- Jenny Xiang
National Science Foundation (DEB-442280)
- Shichao Chen
- Pamela S Soltis
- Douglas E Soltis
National Science Foundation of China (IOS-024629)
- Shichao Chen
- Yun-peng Zhao
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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© 2019, Dong et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Natural selection and repeated patterns of molecular evolution following allopatric divergence
eLife 8:e45199.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.45199
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